President Barack Obama refused to make photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body public. You can understand why.

This is America. We don't shoot a guy -- even a bad guy -- and parade a photo of his mutilated head around like a trophy.

That would be tacky.

We invite our boys in uniform out for a night of free drinks and strippers. And that 13-year-old kid? What the heck. He's invited, too.

Actually, er, uh, inviting the kid might have been an accident. Still, as the NBC affiliate in Denver reports, it's a day Jack Warta will never forget. Even if he didn't get to see any strippers.

"I just finished my lacrosse practice and I looked at my phone," the boy tells Denver's 9News. "It asked me if I wanted to come and celebrate Osama bin Laden's death with free cover and free drafts. It was kind of confusing."

Confusing? Perhaps. But you have to admit, it's more fun than celebrating bin Laden's death by playing Whack-a-Mole down at Chuck E. Cheese's.

Matt Warta, the boy's father, didn't quite see at that way. He told the news station the text message was "shocking" and "inappropriate."

"You'd like to think you can protect your child from those kind of things," he tells 9News. "As a parent, that's really frustrating."

Clearly, the folks at Diamond Cabaret had some explaining to do if they wanted to salvage their squeaky-clean reputation. They promised to take the boy's name off their list.

"There's enough stuff out there that pollutes their minds," Matt Warta tells the station. "That's the last thing we want to do, is use a personal device like a cell phone to send those messages to them. Why would you send a 13-year-old a text message asking them to come to a strip club and give them free beer and alcohol? It's just wrong."

Let that be a lesson to you, kids. You should definitely wait until you turn 18 before you celebrate a confirmed kill by getting plastered and leering at naked women. Such activities are strictly for mature adults.

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Geez, it was clearly an accident. People, spend your time over more important things like taking time out of your busy work day to have lunch with your child at his school or sit at the dinner table and communicate so that things like these can be discussed and explained appropriately.

Perhaps a 13 year old doesn't need a cell phone. That will be the day! Until there are codes or blocks for messages to underage people, this type of advertising will happen. No one asked the kid to join them for a drive-by shooting. Dad needs to lighten up a little. This is hardly newsworthy for NBC or the Internet. Let's hope the kid has a really good spam blocker on his computer because the vulgar advertisements on the Internet exceed those received by cell phone.

In some situations teenagers do need cell phones. I didn't get a cell phone until I was about 15, but I had a lot of things going on after school throughout my junior high and high school years and feel a cell phone would've been useful for me earlier. Also, my mom works nights, so cell phones have become an integral way for us to stay in touch-mostly by texting, because it's easier and more time-efficient for her to read and respond to texts on the job than it is for her to take calls. With all due respect, you don't know the situation of every kid with a cell phone-how busy they are, their mom's or dad's job, maybe they have a parent who lives in another state and cell phones are their main mode of communication. As a result, it's premature to judge them just for having a cell phone. However, I do think there should be limits. I suggest not giving any kids 10-13 years old a cell phone unless they have a busy afterschool schedule and teaching all cell phone-using kids responsible use. Unlimited text and data has also worked for my parents and I due to my mom's job situation, but I would leave unlimited text and data to the discretion of each particular family.

Accidentally inviting a thirteen-year-old male for free drinks and strippers is "shocking" because secular American society understands these things are restricted to adults.

Similarly, according to a 2003 Zogby poll, two of every five Americans say “the government should treat marijuana the same way it treats alcohol: It should regulate it, control it, tax it, and only make it illegal for children.”

Close to 100 million Americans, including over half of those between the ages of 18 and 50, have tried marijuana at least once. Military and police recruiters often have no alternative but to ignore past marijuana use by job seekers.

In 1996, California voters passed a law to regulate medical marijuana within the state. In 2000, voters in California approved an initiative allowing people who are arrested for simple possession of drugs to go through a rehabilitation program rather than through the court process that would result in prison. Since the program began, most agree it has been very successful. It results in less recidivism and is considered cheaper than imprisonment.

Richard Posner, Chicago's chief judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and one of the nation's leading legal scholars, says marijuana use should be legalized as a way of reducing crime. Posner, a Reagan administration appointee once described by American Lawyer magazine as “the most brilliant judge in the country,” explained his views on marijuana in The Times Literary Supplement, a British publication, and in later interview:

“It is nonsense that we should be devoting so many law enforcement resources to marijuana," says Posner. "I am skeptical that a society that is so tolerant of alcohol and cigarettes should come down so hard on marijuana use and send people to prison for life without parole.”

Posner is the highest-ranking judge to publicly favor the repeal of marijuana laws. Several judges of the federal district court, a level lower than the appeals court, have made similar calls, including Robert Sweet of New York and James Paine of Florida, both Carter Administration appointees.

New York University law professor Burt Neuborne said it's significant that “one of the leading intellectuals in the judicial system recognizes that the laws don't seem to be working well.”

Posner and other federal judges have complained that sentencing guidelines force them to give unjustly severe prison sentences to relatively minor drug offenders.

Says Posner: “Prison terms in America have become appallingly long, especially for conduct that, arguably, should not be criminal at all. Only decriminalization is a sure route to a lower crime rate. It is sad that it appears so far below the horizon of political feasibility.”

Rufus King, a Washington, DC lawyer who has served on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, calls the drug war, “A worthless crusade.”

According to King, drug use is a social problem, not a law enforcement problem. He observes:

“Cigarette use is declining through changes in cultural values in the population. Like most smokers and alcoholics, most users of illegal drugs poison themselves because they want to be intoxicated. No human force can do them much good until they want help.”

King is optimistic that the current anti-drug hysteria will subside, and responsible and reasonable drug law policies will be adopted.

Can someone explain to me why the 13-year-old is on the call/ext list for the strip club? He didn't just magically appear there, someone had to give them his information, and I bet that someone is him.

Maybe it was a "mis-dialed" number from a data bank or pehaps a newly recycled phone number.......or just maybe this kid isn't as innocent as he sounds.....how did his number get in the wrong channels?

It was an accident and this happens. Sometimes we cannot forget them but this is something that must be gotten over and forgiven for those who sent it. Just forget it and go on with your life DAD> The kid was not hurt from this text.

As a father of teenagers, I wouldn't get upset at the club for sending the text. I would get upset at my son for being on their email or text list. "What were you doing on their list anyway? When did you visit that club?"

I'm single and childless, but this situation struck me because I'm only about 10 years older than Jack. While it is inappropriate for a strip club to text a 13 year old, accidents happen. (In fact, I once got a voicemail about getting an accident liability warranty for my car. I don't even drive.) What grabbed my attention the most is Jack's reaction to it. He very calmly said it confused him, whereas his dad is raising hell. In my opinion, this shows how well-adjusted Jack is-and I do think his dad is overreacting a bit. I also hope Mr. Warta appreciates his son's easygoing nature.

What the story fails to report is how the club got the boys cell phone number to begin with. They sent out an advertisment to phone numbers from some list. How did the boys name get on the list. i am sure the club itself did not put it there. Be reasonable.

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